Sidonie Bilger

I’m Sidonie Bilger, i am a french figuratif painter. I came from alsace, and i grow up in a middle class family. I studied the academic draw, modelage and anatomy at the Ecole Emile Cohl in Lyon. After that I was Damien Deroubaix’s assistant for few months. I worked with him in Germany, Luxembourg and in France, to his work and his exhibition.

In 2013 I integred as guest the HBK SAAR in SAARbrucken. I mostly study etching and painting. After the year I came back to France and I continued to study and work at le Beaux Arts de Paris. I was graduate in 2019.

My work is concerned about the environment and the way we look at it, as well as the place of Human within it. I try to capture the reality and integrity of an environment. To restore it is my way of campaigning for its protection, in order to bring the spectator to the same process as mine: look to see better.

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Nature is gonna be the main theme of my work. In my work landscape’s always remained my favorite subject; not for its romanticism or ornamental inspiration, but for its universal availability, its diversity and especially for the relative consideration that we have for it in our societies.

What interests me in this work of observation is to focus on something external to myself and return it. As David Hockney said once: “The more we draw and the better we see”. Shared by the concerns of my generation, I'm looking for new ways of life, new ways of working, new ideas. I am especially marked and fascinated by the feeling of inertia carried by the whole of society.

Trough my work, I’d like to spot the ambivalence between our knowledge and our denial of this climate crisis. This would allow me to address several visual topics more or less related or correlated such as pollution, health crisis, risk of the end of the world…